Metro Bytes: Comcast, EarthLink, CBTS, Zayo

Comcast Business has some new business in the education vertical down in Texas. Houston's Texas Southern University is using their Ethernet services to support bandwidth demands across 9,000 students and 1,400 faculty/staff on their 150-acre campus. TSU is upgrading from 1Gbps from another supplier to a 10GE circuit from Comcast.

Out in the Midwest, Cincinnati Bell made an inorganic move that almost slipped past my radar. Their CTBS subsidiary has announced the acquisition of SunTel services. The deal adds unified communications assets and talent to CBTS's managed services portfolio, building on the company's regional presence.

And Zayo has revealed another metro dark fiber deal. An unnamed 'global webscale cloud provider' has picked them to hook up six data center locations in Chicago. The deployment has 20 diverse segments totaling 280 strands total, and is 90% on-net when it comes to Zayo's existing infrastructure.